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Tips for Installing Your Kit Home
Essential Tools for Putting Your Kit Home Together
March 30th, 2012 | Tips for Installing Your Kit Home
Putting together your own kit home can be an exciting undertaking, especially if it will be your first home. The best approach to take is definitely slow and steady, as rushing your home’s construction can lead to problems down the line. Having a few solid tools on your side will make the whole experience way better, so if you don’t have the following skills yet, you’d better start brushing up on them.
Organisation
Putting together a kit home is a relatively simple process, though there are a lot of steps involved and the order is kind of important, so you’ll need to be organised. The more time you give yourself to research and get prepared before your kit home arrives, the easier it will be to stay on top of the process once it begins.
10 Reasons Why a Kit Home Makes the Ideal Holiday Retreat
September 25th, 2011 | Tips for Installing Your Kit Home
While the great Australian dream has always been to own your own home, the other great Aussie dream is to have a holiday block where you can disappear into the bush or the sand dunes and just get away from it all for a while.
These days, it’s not just a shack people are opting for, but something with all the comforts of a home away from home. Enter the kit home; grander than a caravan and much less expensive than a conventional home.
More and more Australians are realising the benefits of kit homes as holiday retreats and here are ten good reasons why:
3 Ways to Make Your Kit Home Purchase and Installation Run Smoothly
August 27th, 2011 | Tips for Installing Your Kit Home
Purchasing and installing a kit home is exciting. There are a few things however you can do to ensure the entire process runs as smooth as possible. From choosing from the best kit homes Victoria has to offer to doing your research prior to making a decision, we’ve got the tips to ensure you purchase and install the right kit home for you.
Know your block of land
Before doing anything else, it’s important that you choose the right block of land in the location you want to live. You need to survey the land for easements and have testing done to the soil to ensure that you choose the appropriate foundations when building your home. The location of the land will also determine what materials your kit home should be made from. In fire prone areas you will want a steel frame fire-proof home.
